Talk:National Institute of Mental Health

Thanks

Doh! Thank you, Icenine0! -FZ 17:01, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Encyclopedic

Although lovely in appearance and neatness, this article doesn't seem "to convey the important accumulated knowledge" and different perspectives on this topic in an NPOV way. It feels more like a NIMH webpage - perhaps reflecting the editorial history. In particular, the section listing every NIMH webpage on particular disorders, which would normally I think be under external links and perhaps just be a main hub page; and the long and intricately detailed history section. I'm going to start editing on this basis, please feel free to revert/discuss if any objections of course EverSince 15:01, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

So I've gone through the whole page. Even thought I've tried to carefully filter out loads of detail from the history section (I feel several decades older now) it surely needs more summarising, including of acronyms/acts etc. A link could be added to wherever all that preivous detail was pasted in from (I assume) EverSince 17:39, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

I did a little research and it appears that the author of the history section, identified as NIMHpress, at least for the first paragraph under the subheading "History", nicely summarized a longer (and exquisitely written) article by prominent history of medicine professor Gerald Grob, Ph.D.--and NIMHpress did provide the appropriate citation in that instance. I of course don't know for sure, but my guess would be that NIMHpress consulted original source materials to write the remaining paragraphs in the History section, but neglected, in most instances, to provide the requisite citations. So the good news is that there does not appear to have been a direct copy-and-paste from another source, and, given the accurate distillation of Professor Grob's article into the first paragraph, the remainder of the History section is probably well-researched and accurate. Most of the events chronicled in the History section were before my time, but I earned my undergraduate degree in psychology in the early to mid-1980's and my doctorate in clinical psychology in the later half of that decade, so from that point to the present I'm somewhat familiar with major NIMH initiatives, and I did not notice any glaring errors or inaccuracies. Mark D Worthen PsyD 02:43, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

For the institute to continue fulfilling this vital public health mission it must foster innovative thinking and ensure that a full array of novel scientific perspectives are used to further discovery in the evolving science of brain, behavior, and experience. This sounds like it was copied out of a brochure still. I don't know enough about the subject to fix it. Khallus Maximus (talk) 18:58, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Exactly right. It's a direct quote from the NIMH website. I'd love to see more original content but the best I could do tonight was properly attribute the quotes and take out an unsupported sentence. Mark D Worthen PsyD 02:43, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

NIMH in Popular Culture

Shouldn't there be a section on this, which includes mention of the film The Secret of NIMH? --Daniel 02:01, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Don't see why not. Also, the NIMH features prominently in the Adam Curtis documentary The Century of the Self, where it is described as an attempt to 'change' Americans into more rational individuals, and gets portrayed pretty much as an instrument of mind control. Damburger (talk) 23:28, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

@DT Strain: Seeing no objection here, I've added Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. @Damburger: I can't find any easily read sources for that documentary, but you might add it and cite the documentary directly. Lee Choquette (talk) 01:29, 14 October 2021 (UTC)